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Depression can cause a person to think she hates herself or is unhappy in her relationships.

It can cause someone to believe everyone would be better off without him, or even that others would be better off dead.

I am not saying that all addicts are driven by depression—depression can also be caused by addiction.

But addiction can be a form depression takes that is not easy to identify as depression. I also include people who work most of their waking hours. Whether they are hiding from the world in bed, preoccupied with an addiction, pushing people away with anger, or keeping their real thoughts and feelings inside while pretending to be okay, people with depression usually feel very alone. Whether they are hiding from the world in bed, preoccupied with an addiction, pushing people away with anger, or keeping their real thoughts and feelings inside while pretending to be okay, people with depression usually feel very alone.

Occasionally people who can do this end up killing themselves, and no one can believe it.

They can smile and laugh; they can act like everyone else, even while they are in excruciating emotional pain.

I was clearly in a paranoid, panicked, mentally ill state.

People who are depressed but act like they are fine may not confide in anyone.

The rest of the time they were acting like someone who wasn’t in pain.

On top of the pain they already feel, acting happy is emotionally exhausting, and having this secret is isolating. Others funnel their pain into anger and people see them rage, abuse, shame, or react with annoyance or irritation to whatever happens around them.

People attribute behavior to the moral character of the person, rather than to the illness.

The pain is also complicated by the fact that depression attacks a person’s thoughts and feelings, rather than liver or lungs.

They may or may not themselves know they’re depressed, but others often don’t guess how much devastating emotional pain they are in.